This is the most basic state of my stage design. Everything will happen from here.
Emperor Jones will be a business man. The fact that it is set in the sky is symbolic. Jones believes he is better than everyone else. He has his head in the clouds and has gotten out of control.
For the Chain gang I want to use a flock of birds. The birds will be looming over him as a projection on the scrim and create a feeling of closing in and horror. They will need to be black birds or crows, which [[#|represent]] death or some kind of bad luck. This is very relevant for Jones.
The crocodile God in the [[#|play]] is going to be represented by a cloud shaped like a crocodile. Because it's in the sky and created by a cloud, it is a symbol of the God. Clouds are also very dense, thick and made out of water. It is very easy for water to become dangerous. It's easy to drown in, crocodiles are extremely dangerous and having one looming over Jones is very confronting and scary. I'm not sure how this would happen yet but it will depend on the director and the budget. It could be done with panels, projections or smoke.
In the sky a plane is a foreign object, "boat people" and refugees are "foreign" to the places they end up in.
I decided to use lighting as the witch doctor after looking at multiple pictures of witch doctors. I was inspired by their [[#|wild]] look and immediately related that to lighting.
I decided that doing the idea that was inspired by "The Burrowers" wasn't fitting properly so I decided to go with the idea of the sky from "Personal Values" and set the entire play in the sky. The sky is uncontrollable and unpredictable. All sorts of things can happen in the sky and I think this is very relevant to the play.
This was my original design,not the best [[#|photo]] but it's the best i could get.
I had a lot of trouble figuring out what I wanted to do. I'm still struggling a little to figure everything out, but I really like the idea of everything in world being bigger than the characters themselves. Think the movie "The Borrowers".
I have decided to use an image created by Rene Magritte called "Personal Values" as inspiration.
I want make Emperor Jones small and have every thing around him much larger. I think this represents how Jones believes he is actually a lot better than he is. It shows how although he believes he is better than everyone, there are still things bigger than him.
OK ...this clearly shows your conceptual stance for your design...would have been intetesing to see some design for the props you would use...nevertheless... Grade: D
Essay 1 Romanticism: it gained popularity in France and Britain in the early nineteenth century and flourished until mid-century. It emerged as a response to the disillusionment with the values of the Enlightenment (Galitz, 2004). Nature, symbolism, myth and emotion were all attributes that are found in this kind of art movement.
Mother and Child by the Sea by Johan Christian Dahl, 1830.
Ovid Among the Scythians by Eugene Delacroix, 1862.
The Burning Houses of Parliament by J.M.W Turner, 1835 excellent
Impressionism: it began in France in the 1800s. Impressionists liked to show the more immediate effect of light and colour at certain times of the day. They use quick, short brushstrokes which looks quite messy up [[#|close]].
[[#|The Blue]] Japanese Parasol by Martha Walter, 1914
Boulevard Montmarte by Camille Pissarro, 1897
Haystacks by Claude Monet, 1891 excellent
Expressionism: it originated in Germany in the early 20th century. Expressionist artists tend to distort reality for emotional effect. Artists like Vincent Van Gough used colours to express their feelings. Others used distorted shapes and exaggerated colours.
Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gough, 1888
The Scream by Edvard Munich, 1893
Panel for Edwin R. Campbell No. 4 Vasily Kandinsky, 1914
Abstract Art: there are many different types of abstract art. Examples include cubism, neoplasticism (1920-1940) and abstract expressionism(1940-1955). Abstract art in history ranges all the way up to 1990s at least, with neo-expressionism. It is a form of modern and post-modern art. It focusses on the power of each individual [[#|work]] to express the ideas in a new way. Works of this type are usually non-representational.
Humanity’s Straggles Rhea Carmi, 1996
Harmonie Tranquille by Wassily Kandinsky, 1924
Magnolia Passage Anthony Caro, 2005-06
Conceptual Art: conceptual artists produced works that completely rejected standard ideas of art. It became popular in the 1960s and 70s. Conceptual art focusses on the process of the work more than the work itself. Conceptual artists are often influenced by the simplicity of minimalism but they reject many of the minimalist ideas.
The fallen Chandelier, Ilya Kabakov
Low to High Allen Ruppersberg 2002 Babble Mel Bochner 2011
Tachisme: this was one of the most important art movements in Europe during the post [[#|World War]] 2 period. It is a style of abstract painting. Tachisme generally uses spots, blotches or stains of colour. Tachisme is part of the broader movemtn called Art Informel.
Encre 7 Isabelle Sarian
too drawing like Tachisme: The Tree, Mike Harrison and Kevin Brisseaux Tachistic Energy Li Edelkoort
Primitivism: this is a term used to reference art that celebrates certain values or forms that can be seen as primal, ancestral, fertile and regenerative. It began to lose it's momentum towards the late 20th century. The term primitivism used to reference all African, Asia and Pre-Columbian American art, but later also referenced art from Africa and the Pacific Islands.
Dancer in the Mirror Max Pechstein, 1923
The Seed of the Areoi Paul Gauguin 1892
Bathers Throwing Reeds Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1909-1910
Pop Art: it was born in Britain in the mid 1950s. Pop art appreciates pop culture, it doesn't critique the consequences of materialism and consumerism. It came around post [[#|World War]] 2 when society was quite consumer driven and many young people were rebelling against their parents and protesting for various causes. The art is a reflection of these changes in society.
Campbell's Soup Cans Andy Warhol 1962
Campaign James Rosenquist 1965
Drowning Girl Roy Lichtenstein 1963
Post Modernism: term used to characterise developments in architecture and the arts in the 1960s and after. It can be described as a set of critical, strategic and rhetorical practices employing concepts such as difference, repetition, the trace, the simulacrum nad hyper reality to destabilize other concepts like presence, identity, historical progress, epistemic certainty and the univocity of meaning. Great definition
Cemetery of San Cataldo, Modena, Italy, Aerial perspective Aldo Rossi 1971
Untitled Film Still #21 Cindy Sherman 1978
Watchtower Sigmar Polke 1984
Modernism: is the loose term given to the succession of styles and movements in art which dominated western culture from the 19th century up until the 1960s. Modern Art rejects the past as a model for the art of the present and is characterised by constant innovation.
Knife Edge Mirror, Two Piece Henry Moore
Constantin Brancusi. Maiastra. 1910-12
Maiastra Constantin Brancusi 1910-1912
David Smith. Head. 1938
Head David Smith 1938
Dada: it was an artistic movement launched in Zurich in 1916. The artists showed their revulsion at World War 1 through their art. The Dadaists sought out unorthodox techniques, performances and provocations to shock society into self-awareness. An ant-art movement
Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Dada Head. 1920
Dada Head Sophie Taeuber-Arp 1920
George Grosz. "The Convict": Monteur John Heartfield after Franz Jung's Attempt to Get Him Up on His Feet ("Der Sträfling": Monteur John Heartfield nach Franz Jungs Versuch, ihn auf die Beine zu stellen). (1920)
The Convict George Grosz 1920
Johannes Baader. The Author of the Book "Fourteen Letters of Christ" in His Home. (1920)
The Author of the Book "Fourteen Letters of Christ" in His Home Johannes Baader 1920
Surrealism: it originated in the late 1910s and early 20s. Surrealists were influenced by Karl Marx and they hoped that the psyche had the power to reveal the contradictions in the every day world and spur on a revolution. the unconscious was the source of creative inspiration
Man Ray. Indestructible Object (or Object to Be Destroyed). 1964 (replica of 1923 original)
Indestructible Object Man Ray 1964
Max Ernst. Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale. 1924
Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale Max Ernst 1924
Meret Oppenheim. Object. Paris, 1936
Object Meret Oppenheim 1936
Formalism: modern formalism evolved in the late 19th and early 20th century. It is a term for any approach to the arts and their formal qualities. In the case of paintings these are usually compositional elements such as line, value, colour and texture: they can be distinguished from technique on the one hand and content on the other.
Composition with red, yellow and black Piet Mondrian 1921
cubist
The Aficionado Picasso 1912
fauvism
Garden-lauves Paul Cezanne
Realism: treatment of forms, colours and space to emphasise their correspondence to actuality or to ordinary visual experience. Realism is the realistic and natural representation of people and things in works of arts. It was most popular in the mid-nineteenth century.
A Criminal Case Honore-Victorin Daumier 1860
A Buriel at Ornans Jean-Desire-Gustave Courbet 1849-1850
Lion At Rest Rosa Bonheur 1880
Cubism: evolved at the beginning of [[#|the 20th century]] and was a revolutionary style developed by Pablo Picasso and George Braques. The cubists challenged conventional forms of representation, like perspective, which had been the rule since the Renaissance. Multiple POVs on the one canvas
Factory, Horta de Ebbo Pablo Picasso 1909
Georges Braque. Still Life with Tenora. (summer or fall 1913)
Still Life with Tenora Georges Braque 1913
Jacques Lipchitz. Man with a Guitar. 1915
Man With a Guitar Jacques Lipchitz 1915
Fauvism: was a movement In French painting from 1898 to 1906 characterized by violence
of colours. These were applied unmixed from commercially produced tubes of paint in broad flat areas, by spontaneity and roughness of execution and a bold sense of surface design.
Henri Matisse. Interior with a Young Girl (Girl Reading). Paris 1905-06
Interior with a Young Girl Henri Matisse 1905-1906
Maurice de Vlaminck. Autumn Landscape. c. 1905
Autumn Landscape Maurice de Vlaminck 1905
Abstract Expression: term applied to a movement in American painting that was popular in the 1940s and 1950s. The works of Abstract expression artists usually put an emphasis on dynamic, energetic gesture, in contrast to a reflective, cerebral focus on more open fields of colour.
too figurative
Woman Willem de Kooning 1950
Night Creatures Lee Krasner 1965
Concord Barnett Newman 1949
Altermoderism: a term used to describe how artists are responding to the increasingly global context in which we live now. Altermodern claims that postmodernism has now come to an end. Altermodern is a relatively new concept and it describes how artists are now responding to the globalised culture that is now present in society.
Tate Triennial
Teeth-grittingly awful Gateway-Getaway 2008-09, one of Franz Ackermann's collages in Tate Triennial 2009
Altermodern: Tate Triennial
Nathaniel Mellors's Giantbum at Altermodern, the fourth Tate Triennial
Marcus Coates ‘Firebird, Rhebok, Badger and Hare’ 2008
Very comprehensive work...apart from a couple of odd examples...this is excellent work. HD-
Emperor Jones will be a business man. The fact that it is set in the sky is symbolic. Jones believes he is better than everyone else. He has his head in the clouds and has gotten out of control.
For the Chain gang I want to use a flock of birds. The birds will be looming over him as a projection on the scrim and create a feeling of closing in and horror. They will need to be black birds or crows, which [[#|represent]] death or some kind of bad luck. This is very relevant for Jones.
The crocodile God in the [[#|play]] is going to be represented by a cloud shaped like a crocodile. Because it's in the sky and created by a cloud, it is a symbol of the God. Clouds are also very dense, thick and made out of water. It is very easy for water to become dangerous. It's easy to drown in, crocodiles are extremely dangerous and having one looming over Jones is very confronting and scary. I'm not sure how this would happen yet but it will depend on the director and the budget. It could be done with panels, projections or smoke.
In the sky a plane is a foreign object, "boat people" and refugees are "foreign" to the places they end up in.
I decided to use lighting as the witch doctor after looking at multiple pictures of witch doctors. I was inspired by their [[#|wild]] look and immediately related that to lighting.
I decided that doing the idea that was inspired by "The Burrowers" wasn't fitting properly so I decided to go with the idea of the sky from "Personal Values" and set the entire play in the sky. The sky is uncontrollable and unpredictable. All sorts of things can happen in the sky and I think this is very relevant to the play.
This was my original design,not the best [[#|photo]] but it's the best i could get.
I had a lot of trouble figuring out what I wanted to do. I'm still struggling a little to figure everything out, but I really like the idea of everything in world being bigger than the characters themselves. Think the movie "The Borrowers".
I have decided to use an image created by Rene Magritte called "Personal Values" as inspiration.
I want make Emperor Jones small and have every thing around him much larger. I think this represents how Jones believes he is actually a lot better than he is. It shows how although he believes he is better than everyone, there are still things bigger than him.
OK ...this clearly shows your conceptual stance for your design...would have been intetesing to see some design for the props you would use...nevertheless... Grade: D
Essay 1
Romanticism: it gained popularity in France and Britain in the early nineteenth century and flourished until mid-century. It emerged as a response to the disillusionment with the values of the Enlightenment (Galitz, 2004). Nature, symbolism, myth and emotion were all attributes that are found in this kind of art movement.
Mother and Child by the Sea by Johan Christian Dahl, 1830.
Ovid Among the Scythians by Eugene Delacroix, 1862.
The Burning Houses of Parliament by J.M.W Turner, 1835
excellent
Impressionism: it began in France in the 1800s. Impressionists liked to show the more immediate effect of light and colour at certain times of the day. They use quick, short brushstrokes which looks quite messy up [[#|close]].
[[#|The Blue]] Japanese Parasol by Martha Walter, 1914
Boulevard Montmarte by Camille Pissarro, 1897
Haystacks by Claude Monet, 1891
excellent
Expressionism: it originated in Germany in the early 20th century. Expressionist artists tend to distort reality for emotional effect. Artists like Vincent Van Gough used colours to express their feelings. Others used distorted shapes and exaggerated colours.
Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gough, 1888
The Scream by Edvard Munich, 1893
Panel for Edwin R. Campbell No. 4 Vasily Kandinsky, 1914
Abstract Art: there are many different types of abstract art. Examples include cubism, neoplasticism (1920-1940) and abstract expressionism(1940-1955). Abstract art in history ranges all the way up to 1990s at least, with neo-expressionism. It is a form of modern and post-modern art. It focusses on the power of each individual [[#|work]] to express the ideas in a new way. Works of this type are usually non-representational.
Humanity’s Straggles Rhea Carmi, 1996
Harmonie Tranquille by Wassily Kandinsky, 1924
Magnolia Passage Anthony Caro, 2005-06
Conceptual Art: conceptual artists produced works that completely rejected standard ideas of art. It became popular in the 1960s and 70s. Conceptual art focusses on the process of the work more than the work itself. Conceptual artists are often influenced by the simplicity of minimalism but they reject many of the minimalist ideas.
The fallen Chandelier, Ilya Kabakov
Low to High Allen Ruppersberg 2002
Babble Mel Bochner 2011
Tachisme: this was one of the most important art movements in Europe during the post [[#|World War]] 2 period. It is a style of abstract painting. Tachisme generally uses spots, blotches or stains of colour. Tachisme is part of the broader movemtn called Art Informel.
Encre 7 Isabelle Sarian
Tachisme: The Tree, Mike Harrison and Kevin Brisseaux
Tachistic Energy Li Edelkoort
Primitivism: this is a term used to reference art that celebrates certain values or forms that can be seen as primal, ancestral, fertile and regenerative. It began to lose it's momentum towards the late 20th century. The term primitivism used to reference all African, Asia and Pre-Columbian American art, but later also referenced art from Africa and the Pacific Islands.
Dancer in the Mirror Max Pechstein, 1923
The Seed of the Areoi Paul Gauguin 1892
Bathers Throwing Reeds Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1909-1910
Pop Art: it was born in Britain in the mid 1950s. Pop art appreciates pop culture, it doesn't critique the consequences of materialism and consumerism. It came around post [[#|World War]] 2 when society was quite consumer driven and many young people were rebelling against their parents and protesting for various causes. The art is a reflection of these changes in society.
Campbell's Soup Cans Andy Warhol 1962
Campaign James Rosenquist 1965
Drowning Girl Roy Lichtenstein 1963
Post Modernism: term used to characterise developments in architecture and the arts in the 1960s and after. It can be described as a set of critical, strategic and rhetorical practices employing concepts such as difference, repetition, the trace, the simulacrum nad hyper reality to destabilize other concepts like presence, identity, historical progress, epistemic certainty and the univocity of meaning. Great definition
Cemetery of San Cataldo, Modena, Italy, Aerial perspective Aldo Rossi 1971
Untitled Film Still #21 Cindy Sherman 1978
Watchtower Sigmar Polke 1984
Modernism: is the loose term given to the succession of styles and movements in art which dominated western culture from the 19th century up until the 1960s. Modern Art rejects the past as a model for the art of the present and is characterised by constant innovation.
Knife Edge Mirror, Two Piece Henry Moore
Maiastra Constantin Brancusi 1910-1912
Head David Smith 1938
Dada: it was an artistic movement launched in Zurich in 1916. The artists showed their revulsion at World War 1 through their art. The Dadaists sought out unorthodox techniques, performances and provocations to shock society into self-awareness. An ant-art movement
Dada Head Sophie Taeuber-Arp 1920
The Convict George Grosz 1920
The Author of the Book "Fourteen Letters of Christ" in His Home Johannes Baader 1920
Surrealism: it originated in the late 1910s and early 20s. Surrealists were influenced by Karl Marx and they hoped that the psyche had the power to reveal the contradictions in the every day world and spur on a revolution. the unconscious was the source of creative inspiration
Indestructible Object Man Ray 1964
Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale Max Ernst 1924
Object Meret Oppenheim 1936
Formalism: modern formalism evolved in the late 19th and early 20th century. It is a term for any approach to the arts and their formal qualities. In the case of paintings these are usually compositional elements such as line, value, colour and texture: they can be distinguished from technique on the one hand and content on the other.
Composition with red, yellow and black Piet Mondrian 1921
The Aficionado Picasso 1912
Garden-lauves Paul Cezanne
Realism: treatment of forms, colours and space to emphasise their correspondence to actuality or to ordinary visual experience. Realism is the realistic and natural representation of people and things in works of arts. It was most popular in the mid-nineteenth century.
A Criminal Case Honore-Victorin Daumier 1860
A Buriel at Ornans Jean-Desire-Gustave Courbet 1849-1850
Lion At Rest Rosa Bonheur 1880
Cubism: evolved at the beginning of [[#|the 20th century]] and was a revolutionary style developed by Pablo Picasso and George Braques. The cubists challenged conventional forms of representation, like perspective, which had been the rule since the Renaissance. Multiple POVs on the one canvas
Factory, Horta de Ebbo Pablo Picasso 1909
Still Life with Tenora Georges Braque 1913
Man With a Guitar Jacques Lipchitz 1915
Fauvism: was a movement In French painting from 1898 to 1906 characterized by violence
of colours. These were applied unmixed from commercially produced tubes of paint in broad flat areas, by spontaneity and roughness of execution and a bold sense of surface design.
Interior with a Young Girl Henri Matisse 1905-1906
Autumn Landscape Maurice de Vlaminck 1905
Abstract Expression: term applied to a movement in American painting that was popular in the 1940s and 1950s. The works of Abstract expression artists usually put an emphasis on dynamic, energetic gesture, in contrast to a reflective, cerebral focus on more open fields of colour.
Woman Willem de Kooning 1950
Night Creatures Lee Krasner 1965
Concord Barnett Newman 1949
Altermoderism: a term used to describe how artists are responding to the increasingly global context in which we live now. Altermodern claims that postmodernism has now come to an end. Altermodern is a relatively new concept and it describes how artists are now responding to the globalised culture that is now present in society.
Teeth-grittingly awful Gateway-Getaway 2008-09, one of Franz Ackermann's collages in Tate Triennial 2009
Nathaniel Mellors's Giantbum at Altermodern, the fourth Tate Triennial
Marcus Coates ‘Firebird, Rhebok, Badger and Hare’ 2008
Very comprehensive work...apart from a couple of odd examples...this is excellent work. HD-